Guide pulley



G. A. YEATON. GUIDE PULLEY.

FILED JAN. 3. 1922.

GEORGE. Ali

Patented Jan. 30, 1923.

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GUIDE PULLEY.

Application filed January 3, 1922.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn A. YEATON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Guide Pulleys, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to guide pulleys in general, and particularly tosuch pulleys as are used to guide the quarter turned belts upon planingmachines, and the like, the object being to provide a device that willguide the belt even though the device may be placed at the point wherethe quarter turned belt will not lie flat upon the guide pulley,

a device from which the belt will not be come dislodged and a devicewherefrom a belt may be removed or whereupon it may be placed easily andquickly.

I accomplish the above object by means of the construction illustratedin the accompanying drawing, which is a part of this application forLetter Patent, like characters of reference indicating like partsthroughout the several views thereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my device. and Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same.

The guide pulley 3 is provided with suitably deep fianges 4, and ismounted upon a shaft 5 with a bushing 6. The shaft 6 is mounted in ahanger 7 and is held rigidly therein by means of a setscrew v8. Said han'er is mounted upon a shaft 9, which shaft is journaled upon the frameof the planer or other convenient member adjacent the pulley 3. The armof the hanger 7 is ofiset as shown at 7 so that the inside surfacethereof is in line with the inside surface of the adjacent pulley flange4.

Upon the opposite end of the shaft 5 from that upon which is mounted thehanger 7 there is secured an arm 10 by means of a setscrew 11.

Said arm 10 is ofiset at its end as shown at 10*, so that the insidesurface of said arm is in line with the inside surface of the adjacentpulley flange 4.

The result of this construction is that the Serial No. 526,704.

belt is housed in by the pulley, pulley flanges, hanger and arm, beyondany possibility of its flying off of the pulley. Should it be rep1iredto replace the belt it may be accompiished by simply loosening thesetscrew 11 and swinging the arm 10 to the position,

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, whereupon the belt may be removed orplaced in position through the opening between the pulley flange 4 andthe hanger hub 7*.

My device may be made of any size, and constructed of any materialsdeemed convenient and suitable for a device of this character, and whileI have illustrated and described a form of construction and arrangementof parts found desirable in materializing my invention, 1 wish toinclude in this application all mechanical equivalents and substitutesthat may fairly be considered to come within the scope and purview of myinvention as defined in the appended claims. Having disclosed myinvention so that others may be enabled to construct and to use thesame, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a belt guide; an offset hanger suspended from a shaft; a shaftsecured in the extremity of said hanger; a pulley rotatably mounted onsaid latter shaft; and an offset arm mounted upon said latter shaft withthe free end thereof terminating adjacent the hub of said hanger andmovable relatively to said hub.

2. In a belt guide: an ofiset hanger and an offset arm mounted uponopposite ends of a shaft with the termination of said arm adjust'ablyadjacent the hub of said hanger, and a pulley rotatably mounted uponsaid shaft.

3; In a belt guide: aflanged pulley; a shaft upon which said pulley isrotatably mounted; an ofiset hanger having a hub at one extremitythereof and a mounting for said shaft at the opposite extremity; anoffset arm secured upon one end of said shaft and terminating adjacentsaid hub; and a shaft upon which said hub is mounted.

i. In a belt guide; an ofiset hanger; a shaft mounted therein; a flangedpulley rotatably mounted upon said shaft; and an ofi'set arm secured tosaid shaft and adapted county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, this to berotated for the purpose of allowing 15th day of Nov., 1921. a belt to beplaced upon or removed from said pulley. GEORGE A. YEATON.

In witness whereof I claim the foregoing Witnesses: as my own I hereuntoaffix my signature in C. F. BLAKE,

the presence of two Witnesses at Portland, J. ROBINSON.

